Spotify is great, particularly when you’re having one of those parties where people keep asking “oh, have you heard that new track by…”, but the current computer-bound UI isn’t exactly conducive to being passed around. If you’re lucky enough to have a touchscreen Crestron home entertainment system, however, Custom Controls may have the app for you: they’ve whipped up a new UI that will allow for fingertip control of Spotify through Creston panels.
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It’s not, arguably, as exciting in pure A/V terms as the company’s Procise PSPHD 7.3 previewed yesterday, but Crestron’s new Prodigy Home Control System is certainly more affordable. CEPro have been behind the scenes with the new wireless automation system, which uses modular ZigBee-compatible components to manage lighting, heating, distributed A/V and more.
Details are more than scarce right now, but whole-house A/V specialists Crestron have been showing off their latest surround-sound processor that promises what CEO and founder George Feldstein describes as “the absolutely latest killer surround sound processor and equalization.” The Crestron Procise PSPHD 7.3 surround sound system with video processor incorporates a 400W-per-channel amp and two “giant” transformers.
In a demonstration for Electronic House, a Crestron engineer played classic track “Hotel California” through the Procise PSPHD and a $50 set of Radio Shack speakers, enough for article author Julie Jacobson to be “in heaven”. When they switched to “real” speakers the audio reportedly “made the guitars come to life.”
Crestron have announced the iServer, a home media server that, rather than using its own internal storage, relies on an iPod for content. Compatible with Crestron’s range of distributed audio and video systems, once an iPod is plugged into the front media connection it’s fully controllable from any of the company’s touchscreen and wireless remotes. USB-over-IP technology means the iPod can also be synchronized with iTunes on any PC or Mac on the network, without needing to remove it from the iServer.
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